How to pass data from custom fields to perl script

[Rune Jensen]

Hello, I'm new to sugarcrm.

SugarCRM version 5.2.0h

I want to pass data from 3 custom fields in the contacts module editview, containing firstname, lastname and phonenumber, to a perl script when a custom search button is activated. The perl script will then take that information and search different social sites with it and return whatever information it finds to the appropiate fields.

I used studio to add the 3 custom fields and created a button in custom/modules/ Contacts/metadata/editviewdefs.php.

From here I'm pretty clueless on how to proceed, so my question is if that is possible?

Any pointers would be most welcome!

[andopes]

Hi Rune

A perl script can be accessed just like any other php script, so you can add a javascript onclick event on button which will run an ajaxy perl request.

Regards

[Rune Jensen]

Thank you for your reply!

Could you give me a code example on how to call the perl script with the onclick event?

In the examples I found about perl and ajax, the perl script generated the html. But I just want it to have access to the existing html in sugarcrm, is that possible?